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Former Mexican president: Legalize drugs to fight cartels

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday said the United States should eliminate all forms of prohibition to weaken drug cartels. “You would take away from the cartels fifty billion U.S. dollars. You would really weaken them, so they would not have the power that they have today,” he told…

Drug kingpin’s bodyguard nabbed in Mexico

Mexican authorities on Monday said they had nabbed an alleged lieutenant and bodyguard of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, the billionaire boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Authorities said the arrest of Felipe Cabrera, a man with a reputation for violence who is known by the nicknames “College Grad” and “Lord of the Mountain Range,”…